This is Joel of course and his assistant SGT Matt Cornforth...the BEST assistant to date. They are hard to come by.......:)

As you can tell it is very hard to get them to be serious.

the last family photo we had was when we were in germany and micah was just a thought. levi was about 2 going on 3....we had another chaplain over and we had someone to take our photo.

well our morning started at 2:42 this morning with alix asking is it time yet to open our presents ,,,then came levi a little later , and then came micah, and then finally levi again asking is it time...and me saying NO go back to bed.....well we finally got up at 6:30 and were done by 7:00 and asking to be fed of course so on to the next task of cooling breakfast .. we had a great christmas ...and i hope all of you did also..lots of love and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.

well the deed is done and the tornado has swept thru our house.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

micah

this is alix the bullet......

it was really cold but they loved it....

this is micah getting ready for another run

this is alix on the top pic and levi on the bottom

it has been snowing for the past couple of days and nights....and we have a park right near our house after school and homework they have to go sledding today they were out for about an hour and a half....when micah finally came in with the boys he kept telling me that his feet had little pins on the bottom....i told that was because it was so cold and he should have came home if he so cold..he said it was to much fun to leave....and that he liked the cold....

knead i say more...the dance of joy....

we finally had our first snow ....and this is the leap of joy for snow ...yes my kids have been deprived of snow over the years so they go a little crazy when it comes....and to able to have snow and jump on the tramp...well alix has died and gone to heaven.....

it has been a long time since i last wrote..so here is an update...thanksgiving was great but the turkey was underdone.....the salad was soupy but the company was great we invited acouple missionary over and had alot of laughs....we also had micah's birthday a month early so that everyone was happy....i made a turtle cupcake....it was alot of fun.....